London Fields Lido
Opened in 1932, the pool was one of the first by the design team of London County Council (LCC) architects, Harry Rowbotham and T L Smithson. The site was designated…
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Millwall Open Air Pool
Opened in 1925, this pool stood within a walled enclosure 200′ x 90′ that also contained changing facilities and admin buildings and room for 200 swimmers. By the late 1930s,…
Eastville Park Lido
Eastville Park Lido was built as a scheme to relieve unemployment, and opened in 1907. It was at first obligatory for bathers to were full costumes when using the pool,…
Houndsfield Lido
Opened in 1927 and refurbished in 1935, when it re-opened it was the first outdoor pool to be named “lido”. The refurbishment cost £8,700 and this added a filtration plant,…
Abbey Fields Outdoor Pool aka Kenilworth Lido
A pool with a long history on an historic site, it finally closed and was demolished in 2021 after a long battle by a local campaign group. The first swimming…
Arbroath Bathing Pool
This large pool was built by the unemployed on a site that used to form part of the garden ground of Seaforth House between the public tennis courts and the…
Potentially reopenable pools 2005 to 2025
To mark the 20-year anniversary of the list created by the late Oliver Merrington and fellow pool enthusiast Andy Hoines, we list the pools and their status in 2005 and…
Burntisland Bathing Pool
Preliminary work begun on October 7th 1935 in connection with the construction of the new swimming pool at Lammerlaws, for the burgh council. William Taylor and Son, Ltd., engineers, Glasgow,…
Larkswood Open Air Pool
Larkswood Lido was a large and unusually shaped open air pool in Chingford, East London. The pool was known for its unique crucifix shape and was considered one of the…
Millhouses Park
This is a tale of two very different pools. The first is a large and fairly regular rectangular pool and the second, an innovative fun pool with islands. The land…